[can-news] AAANZ: Art and the real: documentary, Ethnography, Enactment 12-14 July 2007. Registrations now open

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Registrations are now open for the Art Association of Australia and New
Zealand (NSW) Conference:

           Art and the real: Documentary, Ethnography, Enactment

                              12-14 July 2007
                   Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Australia
                  PRESENTED BY: AGNSW and Artspace Sydney


With keynote speakers:
Geoffrey  Batchen: Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary
Art, The City University of New York.
Anne  Rorimer:  Chicago based independent scholar and freelance curator and
author  of New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality (Thames & Hudson,
2001).

CONFERENCE PROGRAM: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz/home
REGISTER ONLINE: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz/registration

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In  the  last  decade  or  so,  we have witnessed an escalation of artistic
production  drawn  to  ethnographic  protocols,  and  documentary media and
methods.  Artists  framed  in  this  way  include:  Liisa  Roberts,  Sharon
Lockhart,  Kutlug  Ataman,  Nan Goldin, Atelier von Lieshout, Mark Dion and
Gillian  Wearing,  amongst  many others. This conference aims to critically
interrogate  this  current  situation  and  art  which  combines  the human
sciences  and  documentary means, as well as art that attempts to intervene
in social or cultural situations. The precedents for the latter form of art
might include situationism and neo-concretism.

The  conference  would  provide  the opportunity to critically examine both
historical   precedents   and   contemporary   incarnations   of  both  the
ethnographic  turn  in  contemporary  art  and  the  forms  of art practice
characterised as either interventionist or participatory.


Donna Brett
Curatorial Project + Research Officer
Art Gallery of New South Wales  |  Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney
2000
T: 02 9225 1873  |  F: 02 9225 1701  | M: 041 202 4457
Website: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
AAANZ Conference website: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz

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